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Northern Strike 18

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Exercise Northern Strike is a military readiness event hosted annually at Michigan National Guard facilities. With approximately 5,000 participating Marines, Soldiers, Airmen and Sailors, Northern Strike is one of the largest reserve component exercises supported by the U.S. military. The mission is to exercise participating units’ full-spectrum of capabilities through realistic, cost-effective joint fires training in an adaptable environment, with an emphasis on joint and coalition force cooperation.

 

 

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MARFORRES Marines awarded at annual logistics award ceremony
Lt. Gen. Rex C. McMillian, commander of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North, talks with an attendee at the Marine Corps Association and Foundation's 14th annual Ground Logistics Awards Dinner at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, Virginia, March 22, 2018. Competing against every logistics unit in the Marine Corps, Reserve unit Marines Wing Support Squadron 473 has, for the first time in the awards history, won the Marine Corps Logistics Organization/Team of the Year for a large unit award for all their humanitarian and relief efforts with hurricane's Harvey and Irma, as well as aide relief for a plane crash in Mississippi. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Dallas Johnson)
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Marines of 3/25 tackle Exercise Northern Strike 18
The hot Michigan sun is high in the sky as a Marine lays flat against the dry sand looking through his rifle optic at the battle space spread out in-front of him. Beside him, his fellow Marine fills...